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How did America come to accept having two classes of citizens?  When did America give up on the dream of fairness for all? Last night after the television show, I got the chance to sit down with Glenn Greenwald to discuss his new book, With Liberty and Justice for Some: How the Law is Used to Destroy Equality and Protect the Powerful. Unfairness in America is nothing new.  In fact, it is perfectly acceptable in this culture for us to admire those who we see as becoming successful and powerful by creating value.  At the same time, Americans accept unfairness with one explicit caveat: that each of us has the chance to be one of those people - that each of us has the opportunity to become successful. What Americans are rejecting now is not wealth disparity, but the corrupt and unethical way so much of the money in this country is now being made, with our government, more often than not, simply looking the other way. Well, Americans are saying "no more" to our government explicitly agreeing to legalize and codify that destructive behavior, protecting powerful political and financial elites while prosecuting ordinary Americans over trivial offenses. We are beginning to see a rejection of this unfairness at Occupy Wall Street and other national reform-based movements.  

What amazes me most whenever I write about this topic is recalling how terribly upset so many Democrats pretended to be when Bush claimed the power merely to detain or even just eavesdrop on American citizens without due process.  Remember all that?  Yet now, here's Obama claiming the power not to detain or eavesdrop on citizens without due process, but to kill them; marvel at how the hardest-core White House loyalists now celebrate this and uncritically accept the same justifying rationale used by Bush/Cheney (this is war! the President says he was a Terrorist!) without even a moment of acknowledgment of the profound inconsistency or the deeply troubling implications of having a President - even Barack Obama - vested with the power to target U.S. citizens for murder with no due process. Also, during the Bush years, civil libertarians who tried to convince conservatives to oppose that administration's radical excesses would often ask things like this: would you be comfortable having Hillary Clinton wield the power to spy on your calls or imprison you with no judicial reivew or oversight?  So for you good progressives out there justifying this, I would ask this:  how would the power to assassinate U.S. citizens without due process look to you in the hands of, say, Rick Perry or Michele Bachmann?

Ayaz Mir PML_N, Zahid Hussain Analyst, Senator Safdar Abbasi PPP, Kamran Shafi Analyst, Hamid Nasir PML_N, in fresh episode of Live with Talat Discusses Currant Issue with Talat Hussain.

Mian Manzoor Ahmed Wattoo Fed. Min. for Industries and Production, Senator Tariq Azeem Khan Sec. Information(PML-Q), Rana Sanaullah Former Provincial Law Min. (PML-N), in fresh episode of Live with Talat Discusses Currant Issue with Talat Hussain.

Peak Oil is the point at which petroleum production reaches its greatest rate just before going into perpetual decline. In "Peak Oil and a Changing Climate," a new video series from The Nation and On The Earth productions, radio host Thom Hartmann explains that the world will reach peak oil within the next year if it hasn't already. As a nation, the United States reached peak oil in 1974, after which it became a net oil importer. Bill McKibben, Noam Chomsky, Nicole Foss, Richard Heinberg and the other scientists, researchers and writers interviewed throughout "Peak Oil and a Changing Climate" describe the diminishing returns our world can expect as it deals with the consequences of peak oil even as it continues to pretend it doesn't exist. These experts predict substantially increased transportation costs, decreased industrial production, unemployment, hunger and social chaos as the supplies of the  fuels on which we rely dwindle and eventually disappear. Chomsky urges us to anticipate the official response to peak oil based on how corporations, news organizations and other institutions have responded to global warming: obfuscation, spin and denial. James Howard Kunstler says that we cannot survive peak oil unless we "come up with a consensus about reality that is consistent with the way things really are." This documentary series hopes to help build that consensus. Click here to watch the introductory video, and check back here for new videos each Wednesday.

Two weeks after the U.S. killed American citizen Anwar Awlaki with a drone strike in Yemen - far from any battlefield and with no due process - it did the same to his 16-year-old son, Abdulrahman al-Awlaki, ending the teenager's life on Friday along with his 17-year-old cousin and seven other people. News reports, based on government sources, originally claimed that Awlaki's son was 21 years old and an Al Qaeda fighter (needless to say, as Terrorist often means: "anyone killed by the U.S."), but a birth certificate published by The Washington Post proved that he was born only 16 years ago in Denver. As The New Yorker's Amy Davidson wrote: "Looking at his birth certificate, one wonders what those assertions say either about the the quality of the government's evidence - or the honesty of its claims - and about our own capacity for self-deception." The boy's grandfather said that he and his cousin were at a barbecue and preparing to eat when the U.S. attacked them by air and ended their lives. There are two points worth making about this:

Ameer Haider Khan Hoti Chief Minister NWFP, in fresh episode of Live with Talat Discusses Currant Issue with Talat Hussain.

Fauzia Wahab Sec. Information PPPP, Shamshad Ahmed Khan Former Foreign Secretary,Masood Abbas, in fresh episode of Live with Talat Discusses Currant Issue with Talat Hussain.

Jamil Yousaf Analyst, Aftab Ahmed Sherpao, Ch. Muhammad Yaqoub, in Special episode of Live with Talat Discusses Current Issue with Syed Talat Hussain.

Rana Sanaullah PML-N, Lt. Gen. (R) Amjad Shoaib Analyst, Masood Sharif Khattak, Nazar M. Gondal, in Special episode of Live with Talat Discusses Current Issue with Syed Talat Hussain.

Aftab Ahmed Khan Sherpao PPP, Senator Prof. Sajid Mir, Maj. Gen. Azhar Abbas DG ISPR and Bashir Ahmed Bilour in fresh episode of Live with Talat discussing Peshawar PC blast with Syed Talat Hussain.

Senator Jhangir Badar Sec. Gen. PPP, Khuram Dastagir Khan PML-N, Hamid NAsir PML-Q, Ahmed Raza Kasuri Advocate SC, Raja Riaz Ahmed Sen. Provincial Min. Punjab, in Special episode of Live with Talat Discusses Currant Issue with Syed Talat Hussain and Khaild Jamil.

Haroon Rasheed Analyst, Kamran Shafi Gillani Analyst and Ahmed Bilal Mehboob in fresh episode of Live with Talat and discusses current issues with Syed Talat Hussain.

Shah Mehmood Qureshi Foreign Minister of Pakistan and Muhammad Sadiq Pakistani Ambassador to Afghanistan in fresh episode of Live with Talat and discusses current issues with Syed Talat Hussain.

Khalid Aziz Former Chief Secretary NWFP, Anwar Mehsood and Zafar Baig Bhattani MNA Fata in fresh episode of Live with Talat and discusses current issues with Syed Talat Hussain.

Khalid Butt with Abid Sher Ali in latest episode of Live With Khalid Butt.

Riaz Hussain Khokhar, Dr. Rasool Bux Raees Analyst and Shamshad Ahmed Khan in fresh episode of Live with Talat and discusses current issues with Syed Talat Hussain.

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